The Ledger
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Mullen: Bear Stearns was a sales firm, not a trading shop
“And Bear Stearns wasn't a trading firm, despite the image of it. It was a sales firm.”
Assaf: ICG left JPMorgan post-Bear merger over funds placement conflicts
“JPMorgan wanted us to stay. They were great too. But we figured out that because they have this massive funds placement business, that business had conflicts with ICG. And when we figured it out, I went to the compliance people and I called our lawyers and sai…”
US Search burned $70 million in nine months after its IPO
“Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns took them public. They raised about seventy million dollars and they burned through it in about nine months.”
Mullen: David Solomon was hired from his team before recruiting him to Goldman
“That person they'd hired away from me was David Solomon, and so David Solomon was recruiting me.”